A few weeks ago, we got a hands on look at Patriot Memory’s new Viper III DDR3 memory in the 2133 MHz flavor. We discovered that the ICs underneath the light weight, attractive spreaders were Hynix and offer about 2GB/s more memory bandwidth compared to many of the other modules on the market that utilize high quality Micron or Samsung chips. While the Viper III is XMP Ready, the Intel Extreme Masters is XMP Certified. In other words, it’s certified to work on any Intel Z77 chipset confirmed by Intel. Let’s have a look at the IEM memory and see what more it can offer consumers.